Herbivorous dinosaurs evolved many times during the 180 million-year Mesozoic era, and while they didn't all evolve to chew, swallow, and digest their food in the same way, a few specific strategies appeared time and time ...
Archaeology
Dec 5, 2019
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A new Jurassic non-avian theropod dinosaur from 163 million-year-old fossil deposits in northeastern China provides new information regarding the incredible richness of evolutionary experimentation that characterized the ...
Archaeology
May 9, 2019
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Paleontologists working on a steep river bank in Alaska have discovered fossil evidence of the northernmost marsupial known to science.
Archaeology
Feb 19, 2019
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from Germany and the U.S. has found that a non-avian dinosaur living in what is now China laid colored eggs. In their paper published on the peer-reviewed site PeerJ, the team describes ...
An undergraduate University of Alberta paleontology student has discovered an Ornithomimus dinosaur with preserved tail feathers and soft tissue. The discovery is shedding light on the convergent evolution of these dinosaurs ...
Archaeology
Oct 28, 2015
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It is too soon to claim that the common ancestor of dinosaurs had feathers, according to research by scientists at the Natural History Museum, Royal Ontario Museum and Uppsala University.
Archaeology
Jun 3, 2015
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Two fossilized footprints found at Dinosaur Cove in Victoria, Australia, were likely made by birds during the Early Cretaceous, making them the oldest known bird tracks in Australia.
Archaeology
Oct 28, 2013
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The discovery of a spectacular fossil site in Argentina is helping shed new light on life at the end of the Cretaceous, the time period just before the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct.
Paleontology & Fossils
Oct 13, 2023
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Almost 66 million years ago, an asteroid struck the Earth, killing all non-avian dinosaurs and allowing mammals to dominate.
Evolution
Aug 17, 2023
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In recent research published by myself and my colleague Tony Yeates in the journal Tectonophysics, we investigate what we believe—based on many years of experience in asteroid impact research—is the world's largest known ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 10, 2023
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